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He must drop his hurdle-racing. He mustn't bicycle uphill, or against the wind; he mustn't jump; he mustn't run "Not even to catch a train?" "Not to catch anything." And the doctor gave him a prescription that ran: /P Sodæ Bicarb., one dram. Tinct. Strophanthi, two drams P/ He remembered. That was the stuff he'd measured for old Mr. Beasley's heart mixture.
In leaping, neither man nor horse can draw breath while in the air, that is, from the time the feet leave the ground till they again touch it. And the impossibility to draw breath when off the ground is the reason of the death of horses in steeple-chasing and hurdle-racing; they die of suffocation. The reason is a sufficient one for the discontinuance of such racing and chasing.
Great, indeed, was the hubbub. Gradually, however, as the evening advanced Pacey and Guano out-talked the rest, and at length Pacey got the noise pretty well to himself. When anything definite could be extracted from the mass of confusion, he was expatiating on steeple-chasing, hurdle-racing, weights for age, ons and offs clever a sort of mixture of hunting, racing, and 'Alken.
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